Marvel movies take a great deal of (often very warranted)
heat for being overly similar. It’s one thing to create an overarching
aesthetic in a shared cinematic universe and lay out markers that identify a film
as a piece of a larger work. It’s another when every film cranked out starts to
feel like the same damn thing. The comic book giant’s latest endeavor, the
mystical adventure Doctor Strange, is unique in that it both
manages to buck this trend while falling face-first into most of the pitfalls.
